National Hockey League

English: NationalHockeyLeague, NHL, French: LigueNationaledeHockey, LNH, is a North American ice hockey team composed by a professional sports league. NHL is the world’s highest level of professional hockey game, as one of four major North American professional sports. Teams divided into eastern and western regions, each region was divided into three partitions. Union in 1917 […]

English: NationalHockeyLeague, NHL, French: LigueNationaledeHockey, LNH, is a North American ice hockey team composed by a professional sports league. NHL is the world’s highest level of professional hockey game, as one of four major North American professional sports. Teams divided into eastern and western regions, each region was divided into three partitions.

Union in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec, was established inception five teams, after a series of extensions, now a total of 30 teams, 23 in the United States, seven in Canada. Because the players strike in the entire 2004-2005 season was canceled after a successful alliance with the 2005-2006 regular season and the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Traditionally, since the league’s Canadian descent, most of the players are Canadian. Compared to the United States to actively expand its high standards and other Union and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain ready-made high-level output to the players, the players in Europe and the United States has a significant number of players increasing trend in the NHL. Even so, the list of players in the 2005-2006 season, half of the players are still in the Canadian-born.

After a Canadian National Hockey Association (National Hockey Association, NHA) inside the Toronto blue shirts and other pellet boss bosses series of dispute, all the operators came to the Windsor Hotel in Montreal to discuss the future direction of NHA. The final outcome of their discussions to make NHL in 1917 was born. The original team are: Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs and a new arena named Toronto.

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Even within the Union in the years between the beginning of the financial constraints have been, NHL team’s performance on the pitch is still very bright; the first nine years in the NHL, NHL teams won seven of the Stanley Cup champion. 1926, NHL Stanley Cup became the only competitive league. After the NHL began expansion plans; Hamilton, the Tigers came into the league in 1920-21 season; Boston Bruins and Montreal maroon team in 1924-25 season to join; the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates team in 1925-26 Ball Season enter; the New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Cougars (now known as the Detroit Red Wings) join the 1926-27 season. At the end of 1930-31 season, NHL has 10 teams. For some reason, such as the Great Depression and World War II, NHL reduce to six teams. The six teams (Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers) is called Original Six, which means the original six teams in the next quarter of a century, this team is a team of six NHL teams only.

Western Hockey League (Western Hockey League), an authoritative think it will transform into a large coalition of groups and challenged Stanley Cup duty rise, prompting the NHL conducted from 1967 to 1920 for the first time since the expansion of six new teams to join and placed into the new partition. This six teams, including: the Philadelphia Flyers, St. Louis Blues team, the Minnesota North Stars (now the Minnesota Wild team), Los Angeles Kings, Auckland sea lions team (the team in 1976 with the Minnesota North Stars team merged) and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Three years later, NHL has added the Vancouver Canucks, Buffalo Sabres two teams.

In 1972, the World Hockey Association (World Hockey Association) was established, although it has never threatened the status of the Stanley Cup, but its identity has not yet been potential competitors NHL ignored. In view of this, NHL decided to fully implement its expansion plans in order to respond, the new team of the New York Islanders in the same year, the Atlanta Flames, after two years of investigation and new Kansas home team and the Washington Capitals. Two league fans and players compete until 1979 WHA disbanded. The remaining four WHA teams joined the NHL: Harvard whalers team, the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordic team.

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In the early 1990s, NHL added a further five teams. San Jose Sharks joined in 1991; a post season, the Ottawa Senators and Tampa Bay Lightning team with the league. In 1993, Anaheim Duck Ham team and the Florida Panthers also join the alliance. Close to 2000 when, NHL has added four teams: Nashville Predators team (1998), Atlanta Thrashers (1999), Minnesota Wild team, the Columbus Blue Jackets team (both in 2000), a total of 30 teams.

NHL ice hockey game in the field were. Generally, each with six players per team on the field at the same time, each one is wearing skates; a team has five players and a goalie. Goal of the game is called “Puck” hardened rubber disc on both sides of the court enters the enemy goal and score. Players with one end of a long curved paddle-type objects puck control. Puck into the goal keeper managed to keep inside.

Every NHL regular season games a total of 60 minutes. Competition is divided into three sections, a total of 20 minutes per session, 15-minute pause between each. After the end of the regular 60 minutes, the most number of goals in the team win. If still tied after the end of regular time, extra time will be carried out. Plus five minutes when using the gold into the game system that any party to the winning goal immediately; each team can only send four people (not including the goalkeeper). If the game is still too close to call after extra time, then in the form of mutual plum bamboo between injections ball; factions three players per team were single-handedly shot the ball. If not yet have the results of each shot after three rounds, each team will continue to send players to the plum bamboo form between each shot, until a winner. Winner gets two points, the loser places count as overtime defeat, have a point.
In the playoffs, the overtime rules are different, mutually injection game is deleted; replaced by a limited number of 20 minutes 5 on 5 in overtime, taking the same golden goal system. Theoretically game might go on indefinitely, but only a few games is ever more than four overtime periods, and no more than six of them overtime periods.